alex the equity markets going first to wall street which saw a pretty rough start to its a trading session mainly on earnings concerns in fact what we saw there is dupont reported a ninety eight percent drop in profits here in russia at the end of the trading session it's also not a pretty picture pretty have two losses as you can see there t.n.t. b.p. is under a lot of pressure losing more than seventeen percent on the news that shareholders will be told they will get any dividends from the company once it's merged with was snapped on the currency markets the ruble at the moment is losing to the currency basket and the euro is shedding value to the dollars you can see european equities are also a losing value trading near one week low on tuesday on earnings concerns as well. and so you're seeing european numbers there and as i said pretty have two losses there almost two percent for the dogs and next on our t.v.

we talked to a leading space eric anderson about the prospects of international space travel. space tourism one of the more fun civil ideas of our time or a solid business proposition in orbit around earth for the future well joining me is someone who should know a lot about that question it's eric anderson a space entrepreneur to say back here on earth so mr ransome thank you for joining us it's a pleasure ok we'll start off your company was founded taking people up to space since the two thousands i remember when i heard recently about the idea of a space hotel i made a bet with one of my colleagues that there would be no such thing in my lifetime now aside from the fact that i would never live to see the money if i did when that

was the confidence i had that there would be no such thing was i foolish to make that too but unfortunately i think you probably war i have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of its cost effectiveness so there is in theory an impetus there but at the moment the principle impetus is this just the fact of let's go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is that really enough of an incentive all the market studies that have ever been done will show you that forty percent of the general public wants to go to space in their lifetime it just has to reach a point where they can afford it and it's safe enough for them to feel like they're not risking their life excessively to do it but i do think the tourism market is

a catalyst it's not by any stretch the only reason we would go to space we'll go to space for resources will mine the asteroids will get precious metals like platinum group metals from the asteroids people will. live in space will do pharmaceutical research will develop new drugs space will become part of our economic sphere of influence but tourism is a fantastic catalyst for that the i s s at the moment being the only platform capable of holding people in orbit is a working scientific platform are you planning perhaps to try and make space tourists useful that first of all space tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had an in-depth scientific program they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go

to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact showing that there is a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well ok we'll get to the to the other economic areas the best of mining in in little while at the moment we have just seen the dragon spacecraft go up to take supplies to the isis that was a significant moment. however it was it was a small part of what is otherwise a vast state enterprise and without state capital it seems that at the moment no private and device could could exist you can point to companies like space x.

space x. has a contract for services to deliver cargo to the space station but the capital that it was started with has come from its founder mosque and so this is an inflection point this was not always the case you were at. absolutely correct the for the first thirty years of space it's all been controlled by the government but we're reaching a point now in fact i think the flipping point was in the mid ninety's when private commercial expenditures in space finally exceeded government and that was of course driven by the satellite telecommunications market and things like that no one would argue that those are successful businesses but we're reaching a point where commercial enterprise is creating its own space program and it will stand on its own it has been well noted that in the past year and a half there have been a number of worrying mistakes with russian space programs a supply rocket up devices fell back to worth a mission to one of the martian moons never got out of orbit and it's course some

high profile resignations and will likely lead to a lot of restructuring in the russian space agency serious concerns is this technology that's going to take people up good enough the fact of the matter is that despite reaks recent hook ups that may have occurred on different types of launch vehicles the soyuz spacecraft and rocket have the best safety record the best history of being a proven technology for reliably taking people to and from space in human history so there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident of the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to

space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability. like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem you what you're saying to me immediately i think of the shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was an amazing feat of human engineering but it really wasn't reusable i like to call it rebuild a bowl certainly parts of it were rebuilding all certainly some of it was reusable but there was an incredible number of man hours that had to go into certifying that vehicle for re flight every time it ended up being far more expensive and far less reliable in terms of its reusability that's why i use the word rapidly reusable so

the shuttle was not a great example of that however many of the vehicles that are being built now including for example the falcon and the dragon by space x. are designed and the c s t one hundred by boeing to be reusable ten times one hundred times a thousand times and those kinds of advances will be the ones and it's going to take time that will yield those price decreases that will eventually enable millions of people to go to space every year or i'm sure that's an issue that will will take shape in time we'll see how that one puns out the tourism isn't the only idea that you've got on the on the books as it were you also mentioned earlier mining asteroids and this seems like a lot more sort of hard nosed commercial idea just trying to paint a little picture for us a lot of people can't really envision envisage this perhaps from pictures from animations the scene perhaps that there are asteroid belts but i don't think there

are any asteroids that close to earth because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about of from destroying earth so what kind of distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look a fully running asteroid mining operation. wonderful question so in the solar system we have literally hundreds of millions of asteroids the vast majority of those asteroids lie in the asteroid belt the asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter one hundred million miles away or more however there is a small but not insignificant population of what's called near earth asteroids anywhere between ten and twenty percent of the material on them are what we call volatiles what that means is most of it's water water ice and water is great because when you break down water into its constituent parts you get hydrogen and oxygen not coincidentally of the same fuel the space shuttle used to go to and to and from orbit and so we first want to use the asteroids to build propellant depots

in space that is gas stations we want to be able to reduce the cost of space exploration by allowing spacecraft and space ships to feel up no matter where they go and start to seem like a skeptic but i think i'm not alone in the image of of us sending out teams to try and move asteroids to try and land on them really starting to see the realms of science fiction i mean they managed to recently land lander on mars but that's really the very limits at the moment of our capabilities is this really a serious proposition how on earth would you go about doing something so let me be the first to admit there is a long list of technical challenges and it's going to be very hard this is something that we don't know all the answers yet what we do know is that there is no laws of physics that prevented that these are pieces of rock out there that for example something the size of the international space station could be worth two hundred billion dollars and so where there's

a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow there will be a way people thirty years ago thought drilling a hole down into the bottom of the ocean and pulling fossil fuels under the north sea was in. possible and now that's what we do as a matter of daily practice well we will have to see whether that does indeed transpire big promise is perhaps but certainly big ambitions and perhaps big achievements as well whether there will be a future for space tourism and indeed space mining is down to people like our accounts and mr anderson thank you very much for joining us thank you it's been a real pleasure. gracefully. it is a way of life traditionally the people are. herders many ways they.

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next year's budget. for its update now with you now that we're getting down to the business and matters stateside in the end will be we certainly or it's baseball we are talking about the world series match up just two teams remain of course for that it will either be going to san francisco or detroit car in this year let's have a look at how those teams got there right now. thanks for joining us at this choose evening insight from moscow this is for today plenty ahead including. seeking points spartak moscow will be striving to but a less than stellar champions league start behind them when they host ben fico a little later this evening. best of the best the top women's tennis ranking is at stake as the season ending w t a championship in istanbul occur. then there were two son

francisco robin to a world series showdown with detroit after going to tone on the card. table first where sports face a goal keeping prices out of trees this clash at home to benfica injuries are force the moscow side to third choice keeper are brought his champions league debut richards on port fleet brings us up to date response talks injury list was mocking enough already it's now gotten even longer. the rhythm winds have only one foot keeper of the city it is you call joined and read you can on the sidelines. ukranian international is just starting his comeback so it's unlikely that third choice alternative role of what make his european debut for spy attack and head coach when i am really understands just how important a clash it is for his team and for that of the owner i think this will be

a crucial game for us just as it is for benfica i think it's fair to say that barcelona will win the group so we along with benfica and celtic are playing for second place and we didn't take our chance at home to celtic therefore tuesday's clash is very important for us firstly we're playing at home and we can't afford to lose here any more if we want to make the knockout stages the pressure is certainly building on emery with his side losing the last three games by languishing in mid table domestically one of the champions league there without a point after the first two encounters should be about the thinking positively ahead of the game with benfica we can't afford to do anything else i'm sure that my team will put in a good performance against them you know we've had some bad results but there have also been some positives we're looking at these positives and i'm sure that this will help us to get the result we need on tuesday meanwhile been fico coming to this clash having lost just once all season and that being a two now reverse against barcelona. the portuguese outfit have

a good combination of youth and experience and they are seasoned european campaigners getting to the quarter finals in last season's competition. also you can also will be an obvious frantz and he scored five goals domestically already however very head coach source is wary of a sponsor like side despite the not being in the best of form but voting three losses in a row is great motivation for spartak they have nothing to lose spartak will be taking risks as they need to get a result and we may change our approach to the game because of this bin fico have yet to score in the opening two champions league encounters however they might fancy their chances against spartak side but it readies conceded six goals were spotted having enjoyed a great start to their champions league campaign this year with no points after the first two games or pressure is firmly on the emirates side and if they don't manage to get a victory on tuesday they can effectively say goodbye to their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages richard fleet anti moscow. while the leaders in that group

of sports barcelona will be seeking to maintain their spot at the top as they welcome second place celtic to the new count the hoops themselves going for a big gulp say it's knowing the couple giants will be missing some key personnel for the clash defenders carlos pure all p.k. antonio alveda didn't play in last weekend's win over deeper tivo and will sit out the european tie as well scottish champions celtic no diving to exploit a historically put together part of the defense which has already conceded eleven league goals so far this season celtic have already beaten spartak in moscow and drew at benfica home so manager tito villanova is well aware their upcoming opponents cannot be underestimated. when you get out there but if you are for a crucial games left no team is the sure of qualification at this point in time celtic were able to draw we've been in defeat sport talk which tells me there is

serious threat i'm concerned with their counter-attacking ability to reason the most important piece was. plenty of action elsewhere throughout the continent in group eventis or in denmark for an f.c. north one test while shocked or the nats can't retain chelsea lel slosh with a nod of sorts byron munich side looks set to be the pick of the group f.c. kluge will be aiming to keep gala tops right pointless in group h. bomb on chest united will start as big favorites at home to brighton. in tennis maria sharapova has a chance to finish the season as the top ranked female player in the world the russian will be seeking to leapfrog victoria azarenka the year ending w.e.t.a. championships in istanbul which get underway very shortly serena williams. kerber pressure could be but sir ronnie are now only also challenging for the title in turkey azarenka haas to win two group not just to ensure her world number one

ranked stays. the truth about a russian loses all of her. matches about stage the two wins for sure off of a with secure her top spot the two thousand and four end of season winner star churkin payne against around me on will later butler advanced unfeasible in the white. let's talk motor sport where formula one is back on american tar after a five year absence the brand new circuit in texas will host the united states a grand prix on the. other races a spectator attract as many as one hundred twenty thousand fans notice f one driver droom. was on hand over the weekend to take the first official up of the five point five kilometer track they've. already scheduled the track for next year is motor g.p. in april the following month the official v eight supercars event. baseball time or some francisco with detroit for the twenty twelve world series title is after the giants completed an improbable comeback against last year's winners and

louis on monday the giants find themselves three one time in their national league finals battle with the cardinals before winning two straight to force the decider in the best of seven series the local crowd in san francisco able to watch thirteen sees the opportunity of the giants puts an exclamation mark in their comeback with a nine zero thumping of defending champion smart kane adding a second inning r.b.i. single to his impeccable pitching performance while marco scutaro was named series b. . to spare. a number of opportunities to move to be in the blue wall through. going to be walters and also there's a little give through. finally with the sortie winter olympic games less than five hundred days away now training venues are being put to maximum use michael. such area which is going from strength strength to. there's no doubt that one of

the main reasons for russia winning the right to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics is due to the success of the many winter sports athletes it's produced and with the games less than sixteen months away many are getting ready now but this by the increased urgency to better prepare it's often been a case of having the right set up in the sixteen thirty five tracks and other infrastructure have been serving professionals and become fools since two thousand and three the center was initially designed to hold international events of any level there are no other centers in russia that have as many certified tracks as germany or six times we've held a stage of the ski world cup here and have already secured it for the season after the olympics the rule a ski tour is just one of the many events that the complex hosts with summer also including triathlon and marathon competitions but it's the impressive pre winter season where the center excels as it can produce its own snow even in plus temperatures. i've been roller and cross-country skiing for

a while and i can say this complex is one of the best in russia it has interesting courses and is kept at a high international level what's best is that it's part of better developing roller ski and cross-country skiing in russia something that's been sorely needed. so the infrastructure may be slowly popping up on the russian landscape however there's still a lot that the cross-country and roller ski federation's wish could be sped up and improved upon. i of course want to see more ski complexes and courses for roller skiing built around russia because it's the main creative for further developing these sports we're trying to help cultivate these sports in various regions of the country but there's still plenty of work to be done. but for now it's places like germany that will have to leave the way for future generations for complex maybe a one stop shop for personal roller skiis marathon runners and winter sports enthusiasts in general but it's also

a great place just to come and relax and with cottages that have their own personal foreigner you can be forgiven if you didn't make the finish line like a good chunk of r.t. . i can confirm michael capital was on thankfully about it's all a sport i'll see you in just under two hours time for more.

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